The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1887-06-30
Shows Patience at q Steam.
boat Wharf.
Pleasant Family Relations Be.
tween Necessity and
Invention.
A War Relic Mad Recklessness OF an
Edlt0r-Gen. Grant's Glorious
Fourth IN vlcksburg.
Audubon and OrnitholOgy-Remin miniscen.
ces 0f One of the Greatest Of Amer
lean scientists- Society for ths
Protection Of Birds.
vrcxsBuRa, MISS, June l2, 1887.

vrcxsBuRa, Miss, June 12, 1887.
was told at Natchez that could get
a boat from that place for Vicksburg at
8 p. m. I went down to the wharf at
that time. Waited half an hour. No
boat. Another half hour, ditto. Ten p.
m. rolled around--tine most always
rolls--and no boat The royal blood on
my brother.in-law's side in my blue
veins began to near high water mark,
and was discussing mentally--I hardly
ever enter into physical discussion
whether the agents existence who told
me the boat would he here at 8 8p m,
was really an essential tn our country's
good or not, and II "hc would be
misscd"--Notice I've heard the Mikado
If I'd cross him of my list. At II p.
IN. there was no boat, and at l2 had
given up my first rash resolve to murder
the agent, and had concluded TO return
to my hotel and wait till morning. A
steamboat is not to be relied upon to
the minute, and il you are dead bent on
going anywhere suddenly, you had
better 60 by rail. The next morning 1
''caught" boat and continued my jour-
ney up the Mississippi to this place.
Vicksburg is prominent CITY in the
history of the late war. Both sides
suffered considerable loss here, and
those who passed through the siege
know the privations they endured. I
have before me copy of The Daily Citi.
zen, published at this place and bearing
the date of July I'd, 1868, but as note
in the same issue bears the date of July
4th, 1868, it seems the "daily" part is a
misnomer. l borrowed the paper of
pilot on one of the transfer boats on the
Mississippi, who considers it very val
liable relic of the war, especially as it
contains notice of the end of the men,
orable siege of vicksburg. The reader
is doubtless familiar with the history of
the incidents Of this siege, and will
not now occupy space by their repeti-
ton. In looking over this newspaper
relic I notice few items that I will
COPY. The siege as you remember lasted
about four months, and the city's sup.
plies of every kind were becoming dis
tressingly limited, and among other
things the paper upon which to print
The Daily Citizen. The copy of this
publication that lies before me bears
convicting testimony to the above state
ment. A subscriber to the Daily Citizen
at that time could, after reading his
paper, use it to decorate and beautify
his home. 1t was printed on ordinary
Wallpaper and was. issued in strips
about three feet long. OF course it
could only be printed on the white side,
and the other side is covered with blue
and old gold colored figure intended to
cover up cracks and beautify the wall.
1t is said that Necessity is the elderly
matron who takes Invention across her
knee and spanks him with slipper,
and it seems to me this instance verifies
the old saying and marks new era in
journalism. The copy have before me
looks like some wallpaper dealer had
taken up one side Of the paper with
sample designs of his goods and had
omitted his name and place Of business.
would like in this connection to throw
out an original suggestion. I don't often
throw out original suggestions, but in
this instance it was suggested to me by
this wallpaper edition of the Citizen,
and is hence original. For the benefit
Of those papers whose circulation is moi
sufficient to enable the "bread-winner'
who sits in the editorial sanctum, to pay
his last years grocery bill, ! would sug'
gest that they issue their publication on
wallpaper, and then take subscribers al
80 much a bolt. It strikes me as great
scheme, for If man can get the newi
Of the day at reasonable rate and a
the same time be laying in his spring
stock Of wallpaper, methinks he il
going to freeze to the opportunity
Notice the dramatic effect of "me
thinks.") However, I merely throw
this out a. suggestion--as the edito
said when he tossed the first sprini
poem in the waste basket-and mort
especially for those papers whose Income
lacks ten cents month of paying fo
the printers ink.
But to quote "The Tramp" digresa
In looking over the Citizen it is eviden
that the meat supply in Vicksbur
about July I'd, '6s, was nearing bank
ruptcy. We quote an editorial: "W,
are indebted to Major Gillespie for
steak of Confederate beef alias meat
We have tried 1t, and can assure ou
friends that, II it 10 rendered necessary
they need have NO scruples at eatinl
the meat. It il sweet, savory and ten
der, and 50 long - we have . mule lei
we ere satis6ed our soldiers will be con
tent TO subsist on it,"
But mule meat was not the only luz
ury Of the day, as the following iron
the same issue will indicate